Dell is now selling their Inspiron 1525 series of laptops with designs by artist Mike Ming. They’re designed to be “attuned to youth culture,” which is one of those artfully clueless turns of phrase that could only be put earnestly on paper by a press release writer secretly mystified by these crazy kids today with their Dinosaur Comics and their LOLCats and their Substance D.
One Ming Inspiron will set you back about $699, although from my mother’s anecdotal experience ordering what Beschizza might have called a “whore red” laptop from Dell, I wonder if the Ming design is just a sticker, in which case you’re probably better off just going to Gelaskins. Hell, Dell should just team up with those guys: they’re awesome.
Mike Ming Inspirons [Dell via Crunchgear]
That’s a bad link to gelaskinz — it just goes to some crappy domain-squatter page.
Uh, http://www.gelaskinz.com seems to have vanished…
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Is this it?
http://www.gelaskins.com/
Ha. Yes. I don’t know why I thought it had a “z” in it. Maybe because they’re so EXTREME!
Ahhhhh. Substance D. Just what the government ordered. Little blue flowers never hurt anyone…
“attuned to youth culture”
hahahah
hard to believe these guys are too nerdy to remember words like “cool”
classic dilbert
of course, if you have to actually claim that your product is “cool”, it probably isn’t.
Mr. Brownlee, if you were as attuned to youth culture as you claim to be, you would know that the word is XTREME.
The gelaskins tip is a welcome one. I just ordered one for new ipod. I have been assured that it is RADICAL, as the kids say. Possibly even BITCHIN’.
@John and Fnarf: Extreme Cheddar!!!
Cheddar can’t be XTREME. It doesn’t have caffeine in it. Pasteurized Process Cheese Food Product with caffeine and Guarana — now that’s XTREME.
Fnarf, you’re right! You need to be on a marketing team. But also I guess that’s why they spell it eXtreme rather than the preferred XTREME!!
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